Strength in Weakness???

Originally Posted by Arunarc

Hello Shanthi
What a wonderful write up. The last 2 paras you have spoken it all and the wonderful examples that you have given superb..............
I believe that life is a learning experience and being able to recognize our own strengths and weaknesses can help us become better individuals in anything we choose to do, whether it is positive abilities and skills that can help achieve our goals or negative personal areas that need improvement. Knowing ourself and what we can do, can help us recognize and overcome our weaknesses.........
Beautiful one.................

Aruna dear,

if i have to say thanks it is to charu for asking me a question. if not for that i would not have been forced to think, tell, and then share it here...

Living examples have more impact sometimes..that is why I had to take up these examples...

I strongly believe in the strength that is hidden beneath all that weakness...

Thanks for stepping in.

Originally Posted by anukvs

Hi Shanti,

Am amazing post.

Infact, I copied the main contents of it and forwarded to a few of my collegues in office to read and enjoy.

Keep adding.

Anu

Anu,

Thanks for stepping in. There is nothing amazing, I have just written about what all of us know..only we don't apply.

Originally Posted by srinivasan_vanaja

hi shanthi,

a very good topic.

first of all i need to analyze what is my weakness and strength. if i am really able to find my weakness, i shall try my best to make it as my strength.

identifying our weakness and strength is a must.

Vanaja,

Thank you. yes identifying our weakness and strength is really a must.

Originally Posted by madhu11

Shanti,

Very lovely post. Yes, one should first identify ur weakness first so we can improve in life. enjoyed reading ur post.

madhu11,

thank you.

Dear Shanthi,
I loved reading your post.Really it gave ma an insight.My weakness is I am too lazy.But many a time I try to overcome it,again the same laziness creates a big obstacle.But I am keeping on trying & after reading ur post,I think I have got more endurance to make my weakness into strength.Thanx for such a nice write up with ideal instances.

Dear Shanvy

A lovely write up. I have read the story before. Nice to read it again. knowing one's weakness helps us to know where we lack and it helps us to improve. Having a check on our weakness and drawing strength from it. Yes it helps. But most of the time we are not aware of it.

regards
vidhi

Dear most Shanthi ma'am,

Should I call it the need of the hour or an apt coincidence !!! I was going ahead with my SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) analysis yesterday and trying to evaluate whether I had tried (or trying) to overcome or at least paralleled my weaknesses. As the river winds through the precipitous gorge, your post filled my nerves with steep attention, calling in for an appropriate consideration.

Very neatly said. Now, I remember a mail that was forwarded by my one of friends to me. Though will not go in depth, I will highlight the essence of it. The whole mail revolved around "understanding the concept of God". It was a set of questions and answers, wherein a student posed the question tags and was replied by his professor. One such question will be relevant to our topic here.

Is there anything called darkness ?? The answer draws a beautiful conclusion to the whole concept. "The absence of light is what we term as darkness". As such in reality, there is no such darkness that could prevail. In the same way, absence of a particular strength is what we term as weakness. Weakness can be diluted completely once strength is gained. One need not go in search of a "strength" within themselves. As you have rightly put it ma'am, if we are aware of our weakness(es), there decays the enmity !! Intellectual deficiencies can be easily tackled once they are tracked.

Weakness(es) should not be allowed to breed over. When let, they make life strenuous and miserable (especially in this word of cut-throat competition). Rather, continuous assessment of past and present records which dates to our performance levels should be stocked. We will be truly benefited if our performance graph shows a Sigmoid curve without the "death phase". (Sigmoid curve is generally drawn as the growth curve of bacterias. It consists of four phases: Lag, Log or exponential, Stationary and Death).

If we take real world examples, almost all interviews are fired off with "strengths and weaknesses" questions. Being experienced personally just a couple of months back, I know the impact that leaves the interviewer if our weakness column peaks than that of our strengths. The immediate reflex question being, "have you taken measures to overcome your weakness(es)"??; we should be on the safer side to justify our own selves; else "cat on the wall situation" !!! Our "strengths" and "transformed (form weaknesses to) strengths" always compliments our character per se.

Knitting our strengths and capabilities from the weakness(es) that once spread like a web are the real attributes one should watch out for. Once this is cultivated, the moral affirmation and firmness will spread gradually within us thereby making us "evolve" in tune with the internal (personal self)and external demands (community at large).

Regards
RamyaVaradharajan

shanti,

i read everything you post on IL but dont attempt to reply because i am not that much good in writing my views. of course i can talk hours together,

at many times i want to post something and sit back without writing, but that same topic is posted by you. it makes me wonder how my thoughts gets refracted.

as you know krithi's weakness in all subjects is her strength. she is excellent in maths, now her teachers want to enroll her for the international maths olympiads..............

cheers
padma

Originally Posted by vijubala

Dear Shanthi,
I loved reading your post.Really it gave ma an insight.My weakness is I am too lazy.But many a time I try to overcome it,again the same laziness creates a big obstacle.But I am keeping on trying & after reading ur post,I think I have got more endurance to make my weakness into strength.Thanx for such a nice write up with ideal instances.

Viju,

thank you. laziness is not a big weakness. you can overcome it easily. all the best.

Originally Posted by vidhi

Dear Shanvy

A lovely write up. I have read the story before. Nice to read it again. knowing one's weakness helps us to know where we lack and it helps us to improve. Having a check on our weakness and drawing strength from it. Yes it helps. But most of the time we are not aware of it.

regards
vidhi

Vidhi,

thank you. Yes sometimes, we are not aware of our weakness.

The story of the boy did rounds some time back.